ABSTRACT
A revolution in school education is no longer held up by lack of appropriate teaching materials. They are widely taught in universities and used in business, government and medicine, and variants are available that are simple enough to fit school-children’s needs and capabilities. A variety of powerful tools are available to more advanced students. Decision reasoning can even be turned into numbers, but in real life people rarely have the time or training to benefit. Curricula are available to teach decision tools at several levels of middle and high school and have been tested in pilot courses. The material is intellectually challenging and teachers, let alone students, often find the technical content of decision tools daunting. The task of a decision institute would extend to higher education, where it already has a firm, if haphazard, and foothold. The focus of educational reform has so far been almost exclusively on how to teach existing curricula of math, science and literacy.
